Stoke up the summer heat with our action-packed August issue! John W. Campbell Award finalist Gord Sellar’s novelette thrusts us into battle as the far future “Bernoulli’s War” rages. Here, lives may last for nanoseconds, but a tenuous connection with humanity remains. In a new short story set in her Xuya continuity, Nebula-nominated Aliette de Bodard’s Mexica warriors brutally haze a young pilot. But if they don’t kill her first, she just may discover the “Starsong.” In new writer Jason Sanford’s novelette, a strange religious cult does its best to ensure Earth’s destruction and all that stands in their way is an astronaut stranded on “Heaven’s Touch”; new writer Indrapramit Das’ novelette takes us to a tidal-locked planet with its own bloody history. After a journey into Twilight, it soon becomes clear why many of the inhabitants “Weep for Day.” Extreme competition reaches an all-new level in Ian Creasey’s riveting novelette about “Joining the High Flyers.”

World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss brings us a short story about a scientist seriously compromising her experiment in “Beautiful Boys”; Nebula and Hugo Award finalist Bruce McAllister’s short story reveals that even the Arcturians know you can learn a lot about a society from its “Stamps”; and after a thirty-one year absence from our pages, Hugo Award finalist Ted Reynolds returns with a short tale about an L5 hospital patient’s remarkable “View Through the Window.”

Robert Silverberg’s July Reflections takes a look at “Life in the Future” and we’ll have Peter Heck’s pithy On Books column; plus we’ll have an array of poetry and other features you’re sure to enjoy. Look for our July issue on sale at newsstands on May 8, 2012. Or subscribe to Asimov’s—in paper format or in downloadable varieties—by visiting us online at www.asimovs. com. We’re also available individually or by subscription on Amazon.com’s Kindle and KindleFire, BarnesandNoble.com’s Nook, ebookstore.sony.com’s eReader and from Zinio.com!

In a Reflections column reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Robert Silverberg explores the eternal dustup between Big-Endians/Little-Endians, James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net column asks “What Is Reality?,” and we’ll have Peter Heck’s On Books column; plus we’ll have an array of poetry and other features you’re sure to enjoy. So get out of the pool and look for our August issue on sale at newsstands on June 19, 2012. Or subscribe to Asimov’s—in paper format or in downloadable varieties—by visiting us online at www.asimovs.com. We’re also available individually or by subscription on Amazon.com’s Kindle and KindleFire, BarnesandNoble.com’s Nook, ebookstore.sony.com’s eReader and from Zinio.com!